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Judith Shapiro

Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

Even if Chinese civilization has developed more against than with nature, the Mao years were a particular exercise in environmental destruction. In one case-study Shapiro tells the story of the draining of the northern part of Dianchi Lake, one of the first steps turning Kunming's lake into the fetid cess-pool it is today.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, ISBN 0521781507 BibTeX citation

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